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LinkedIn is closer to Facebook imo. The subreddit /r/linkedinlunatics is pretty funny, and also a bit scary. It's pretty interesting actually, on facebook you

LinkedIn is closer to Facebook imo. The subreddit /r/linkedinlunatics is pretty funny, and also a bit scary. It's pretty interesting actually, on facebook you see people show off a manufactured persona that is always laughing, on vacation in exotic or glammy places, and on LinkedIn it's the exact same phenomena but the success indicators are different. I'm still a bit clueless on the whole LinkedIn influencer thing though. Is there some monetary gain from that? I don't think they have the same possibilities for eg ad space or sponsorship as eg youtube or blog influencers, so perhaps it's more a personal vanity thing, or selling books and courses. </rambling>

3np 4y ago
I guess it's "brand-building", be it just for the sake of ego or as a funnel to their other channels.
ratww 4y ago
I think everyone else is also "clueless" about it, I don't think the jury is out for the possibilities you can have as a Linkedin influencer. Some people seem to be advertising their coaching services (for example: by targeting people looking for jobs), some are trying to advertise themselves professionally (lots of people showing Microsoft/Oracle/AWS certificates and writing articles about it), some are trying to advertise themselves as industry leaders so they can advance internally in their company, some are trying to build a network they can recruit from, and some are just misguided and are trying to replicate what they see on other networks. I guess that's why content is all over the place.
Nextgrid 4y ago
> Is there some monetary gain from that? I think that people who are "active" on LinkedIn rank higher in searches & suggestions, so the feel-good shitposts might be a way to improve their "SEO" if they rely on LinkedIn to find leads (recruiters, etc).
dzhiurgis 4y ago
r/linkedinlunatics looks like pretty funny satire, was hoping for tons of cringe instead
- switch007 4y ago
  Search Best of LinkedIn on Twitter
wildrhythms 4y ago
Let me summarize it for you: it's "rise and grind" culture and "hustlers" who have convinced themselves that climbing the corporate ladder is the most important thing they will ever do. It's sad really
blitzar 4y ago
> I'm still a bit clueless on the whole LinkedIn influencer thing though. Every day some one on my twitter timeline will retweet a "10x your biz on linkedin" - reading them makes me reconsider if intelligent life exists on this planet.
user_agent 4y ago
I just wanted to say that you made my day, @retSava, with that /r/linkedinlunatics community :D I haven't been reading my LI feed for at least 6 years now. I had no idea how quirky things were there. Wow. Just wow.

3np 4y ago

I guess it's "brand-building", be it just for the sake of ego or as a funnel to their other channels.

ratww 4y ago

I think everyone else is also "clueless" about it, I don't think the jury is out for the possibilities you can have as a Linkedin influencer. Some people seem to be advertising their coaching services (for example: by targeting people looking for jobs), some are trying to advertise themselves professionally (lots of people showing Microsoft/Oracle/AWS certificates and writing articles about it), some are trying to advertise themselves as industry leaders so they can advance internally in their company, some are trying to build a network they can recruit from, and some are just misguided and are trying to replicate what they see on other networks. I guess that's why content is all over the place.

Nextgrid 4y ago

> Is there some monetary gain from that? I think that people who are "active" on LinkedIn rank higher in searches & suggestions, so the feel-good shitposts might be a way to improve their "SEO" if they rely on LinkedIn to find leads (recruiters, etc).

dzhiurgis 4y ago

r/linkedinlunatics looks like pretty funny satire, was hoping for tons of cringe instead

switch007 4y ago
Search Best of LinkedIn on Twitter

wildrhythms 4y ago

Let me summarize it for you: it's "rise and grind" culture and "hustlers" who have convinced themselves that climbing the corporate ladder is the most important thing they will ever do. It's sad really

blitzar 4y ago

> I'm still a bit clueless on the whole LinkedIn influencer thing though. Every day some one on my twitter timeline will retweet a "10x your biz on linkedin" - reading them makes me reconsider if intelligent life exists on this planet.

user_agent 4y ago

I just wanted to say that you made my day, @retSava, with that /r/linkedinlunatics community :D I haven't been reading my LI feed for at least 6 years now. I had no idea how quirky things were there. Wow. Just wow.